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Creativity, culture and heritage play a key role in the Queenstown Lakes District across several aspects of wellbeing including social, community, economic, environmental and individual.

Queenstown alpine ski star Alice Robinson has secured a thrilling second place at the Giant Slalom World Cup finals in Austria.

Plans to rezone Queenstown land for 2,400 new homes should be approved by the Minister for the Environment, an independent hearings panel says.

The Dunedin City Council (DCC) will be consulting the public over a proposal to sell the council-owned lines company Aurora Energy.

Ben Richards has won the Freeride World Tour Fieberbrunn Pro stop in Austria overnight.

A Ruapehu business owner says the latest government bailout is a waste of money. On Wednesday, the government agreed to a final $7m bailout for Ruapehu Alpine Lifts, but was clear it would be the last taxpayer money the struggling ski resort received.

Queenstown Police are urging drivers to take care after attending a large number of vehicle crashes during the past week or so, while there's also been a water rescue, and an assault charge for an Arrowtown man.

Campaigners and academics who challenged plans to build a huge international airport at Tarras say they don't believe the fight is over.

During an event last night at the Liger Leadership Academy, technology experts Ben Reid and Sam Ragnarrson, joined by students Nyah Swiety-Santos and Alex Gile, explored the impact of rapid technological advancements on New Zealand's future.

When Ming Han arrived in Queenstown, just 24 and speaking minimal English more than 11,000kms from home, ironically, he was returning to his roots.

I’m thinking of firing my editor. Old ladies like me worry all the time that they might be getting dementia so it was very cruel of him to leave a text message saying the column hadn’t arrived on Monday morning just before said old lady goes to yoga.

The family of one of the New Zealanders killed in an avalanche in Japan say she was full of vitality and passion for life.

Three Gen-Z teenage digital natives with a passion to enlighten the older generation on all things tech are launching a series of free weekly workshops for the tech-illiterate at Frankton from March 13.

The house market has flattened out with diminishing demand expected to continue, as interest rates and other costs remain high, according to the latest QV House Price Index.

Sustainable Queenstown’s Slow Fashion Campaign is back!

James Shaw, the outgoing Green Party co-leader and former Climate Change Minister, is on The Outlet Queenstown Podcast this week. Ahead of his appearance at Aspiring Conversations in Wānaka Shaw talks to pod host Brent Harbour about the complexities of global climate solutions and individual responsibilities.

Wānaka welcomed more than 44,000 people to the 87th Wānaka A&P Show this weekend.

Queenstown Lakes workers say they feel like 'second class citizens' in the expensive region, with housing, activities, shopping, food and drinks beyond their reach.